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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Certain Doubt Entirely Jealous Madness Soon Upon
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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Absolute Cease Certain Change Doubt Either Jealousy Madness Passion Turn
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Desire Esteemed Oneself Politeness Treat
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum
The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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Only Some Surprise Thing
We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Offensive Others Own Patience People Vanity
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Always Heart Mind
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Age Forbid Old Pain Pressure Under Youth
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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Advantage Better Join Man Think Wise
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Endure Enough Misfortune Other Strength
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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Atter Community Evil Find Hard Philosophy Vanquish
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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Faculty Great Lesser May Mind Much Talk Word

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